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- Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:12 pm
- Forum: Historic Hastings
- Topic: Rock-a-Nore
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Re: Rock-a-Nore
According to the late J Mainwaring Baines, local historian and author of 'Historic Hastings' the name came about because in 1581 a document referred to a shop belonging to one william Creasseye as 'lying to the Mayne Rock against the North" (in other words North of the big rock which was the only la...